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1.

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
June 19, 2012
Critic Score
87
29 reviews

2.

Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
May 21, 2012
Critic Score
85
7 reviews

3.

Rodriguez - Searching for Sugar Man [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
July 24, 2012
Critic Score
84
5 reviews

4.

Matthew E. White - Big Inner
August 21, 2012
Critic Score
84
16 reviews

5.

Bob Dylan - Tempest
September 11, 2012
Critic Score
84
31 reviews

6.

Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
May 22, 2012
Critic Score
81
18 reviews

7.

Carina Round - Tigermending
May 1, 2012
Critic Score
81
5 reviews

8.

Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
February 7, 2012
Critic Score
81
31 reviews

9.

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
January 31, 2012
Critic Score
81
28 reviews

10.

Nanci Griffith - Intersection
February 20, 2012
Critic Score
80
5 reviews

11.

Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
February 21, 2012
Critic Score
80
27 reviews

12.

Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
March 6, 2012
Critic Score
79
27 reviews

13.

Father John Misty - Fear Fun
May 1, 2012
Critic Score
79
21 reviews

14.

Iris DeMent - Sing The Delta
October 2, 2012
Critic Score
79
10 reviews

15.

Cat Power - Sun
September 4, 2012
Critic Score
78
41 reviews

16.

Meursault - Something for the Weakened
July 16, 2012
Critic Score
78
12 reviews

17.

Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
October 15, 2012
Critic Score
78
12 reviews

18.

Josephine Foster - Blood Rushing
September 18, 2012
Critic Score
78
5 reviews

19.

Soap&Skin - Narrow
February 13, 2012
Critic Score
78
5 reviews

20.

Martin Rossiter - The Defenestration of St Martin
December 3, 2012
Critic Score
78
8 reviews

21.

Loudon Wainwright III - Older Than My Old Man Now
April 17, 2012
Critic Score
77
12 reviews

22.

Todd Snider - Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
March 6, 2012
Critic Score
77
11 reviews

23.

Mac DeMarco - Rock and Roll Night Club
March 13, 2012
Critic Score
77
6 reviews

24.

Chuck Prophet - Temple Beautiful
February 7, 2012
Critic Score
77
6 reviews

25.

Angel Olsen - Half Way Home
September 4, 2012
Critic Score
77
8 reviews
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